User manual F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS FOR MIMESWEEPER ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

[. . . ] F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper Administrator's Guide "F-Secure" and the triangle symbol are registered trademarks of F-Secure Corporation and F-Secure product names and symbols/logos are either trademarks or registered trademarks of F-Secure Corporation. All product names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. F-Secure Corporation disclaims proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. Although F-Secure Corporation makes every effort to ensure that this information is accurate, F-Secure Corporation will not be liable for any errors or omission of facts contained herein. [. . . ] From here you can control all locally installed F-Secure products. 2. Select F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers and click Properties to open the product settings. The first tab in the product settings is Statistics, where you can see the product status. The second tab, Real-time Protection, covers real-time scanning settings. F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper does not use real-time scanning, but you can enable normal CHAPTER 3 Configuration server-level on-access file scanning from here to protect the local host. It is disabled by default for performance reasons, as the MIMEsweeper servers are usually not used in file server roles. 21 3. Exclude the paths to MIMEsweeper for SMTP and temporary directory locations to enable real-time protection in the server. This needs to be done to prevent inter-operability issues with 22 MIMEsweeper's temporary files that are created for scanning. If these paths are not excluded, the server may fail in e-mail delivery. Manual Scanning is always used with F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper. The default for `Action to Take on Infected Files' is Disinfect Automatically. For `Scanning Options' the defaults are Files with these extensions and Scan inside compressed files. These settings are separate from Clearswift scenario settings. CHAPTER 3 Configuration After selecting, click OK to continue. 23 5. If updates are not performed frequently, the product alerts the administrator after a certain time has passed since the last successful database update. 24 After the F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper configuration is complete, the next task is to configure the Content Scanner Scenario for MIMEsweeper for SMTP. CHAPTER 3 Configuration 25 3. 2 Configuring Content Scanner Scenario To configure Content Scanner Scenario: 1. Make sure that the MIMEsweeper installation is working and does not have any antivirus scanning scenarios. Go to the Incoming Scenario and choose New Content Scanner Scenario in the MIMEsweeper for SMTP console. This guide covers only the Incoming scenario, but the same routine can be duplicated to the Outgoing scenario as well. Overridable allows you to make sub-scenarios for different antivirus behavior. Select Clean the detected item to allow disinfected attachments to pass through. Select Strip the detected item to allow messages to pass through when malicious code is removed from the message, and click Next. ! Cleaning. E-mails can be annotated to state that a virus was found and successfully removed. An e-mail can be annotated to state that infected items have been removed. ! The scenario classifies e-mails depending on the F-Secure Anti-Virus scanning results. [. . . ] If you have questions about F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper that are not covered in this manual or on the F-Secure support web pages, you can contact your local F-Secure distributor or F-Secure Corporation directly. For technical assistance, contact your local F-Secure Business Partner. Example: Anti-Virus-Norway@f-secure. com If there is no authorized F-Secure Anti-Virus Business Partner in your country, you can submit a support request directly to F-Secure. There is an online "Web submit form" accessible through the F-Secure support web pages on the "Contact Support" page. [. . . ]